HA Search setup overview

When you set up the Jive platform for On-Premise HA search, you perform several steps in a specific sequence.

Note: As of Jive 7.0, the search index rebuild process has been improved so that you no longer have to rebuild the search index on one node and then copy it to all of the other search nodes. In versions 7.0+, the ingress replicators automatically send rebuild traffic to all search nodes. Because of this change, all of the search nodes must be available before starting a search rebuild. This ensures that the search index on the search service nodes are always consistent.
In the following topics, we provide an example of an HA search configuration setup that uses the following ports and hosts. Your configuration may vary depending on your requirements.
  • 2 search nodes: search01.yourdomain.com, search02.yourdomain.com, port 30000
  • 2 ingress replicator nodes: ir01.yourdomain.com, ir02.yourdomain.com, port 29000
  • 1 haproxy node: haproxy.yourdomain.com, load balancing the search nodes on port 20000 and load balancing the ingress replicator nodes on port 19000
Step What you're installing Required or optional Installation instructions
1 – Required Understand the supported HA search configurations, described in Supported HA Search.
2 – Required Determine how many nodes you need in your HA search configuration, as described in Required nodes for an On-Premise HA Search service. Typically, this includes two search nodes and two ingress replicators, but you may have more of each, depending on your requirements.
3 Application RPM Required Install the Jive Linux package on each node of your HA search configuration (the search servers and the ingress replicator servers). For more information, see Installing Jive package and starting up.
4 Search servers Required Add another search server to your configuration, as described in Installing one or more Search servers.
5 Ingress replicators Required Add another ingress replicator server to your configuration, as described in Installing one or more Search Ingress replicators.
6 HA search proxy Required Add an HA proxy to your configuration, as described in Setting up the HA search proxy.
7 – Required Include a JSON services file on each search server in the configuration, as described in Services directory for HA Search.